The Game

Spun off from the popular sitcom Girlfriends, The Game was about the adventures of a woman who gave up her offer of admission to medical school to follow her boyfriend's football career in San Diego.

Melanie Barnett (played by the beautiful Tia Mowry) and her boyfriend Derwin Davis (played by Pooch Hall) were the main couple of the show. The other characters include Malik Wright (played by Hosea Chanchez) and his mother Tasha (played by the funny Wendy Raquel Robinson), and the 2nd couple of the show Jason & Kelly Pitts (played by Coby Bell and Brittany Daniel, respectively). After Tia and Pooch left the show in S6, we get introduced to a few new characters, including Jason's ex-wife Chardonnay (played by the beautifully talented Brandy Norwood), and the new lead couple Keira Whitaker and Bryce "Blueprint" Westbrook (played by Lauren London and Jay Ellis, respectively).

If you enjoy a pure sitcom, watch the first 3 seasons, because by the time The CW canceled it and got revived by BET, it featured plenty of dramatic moments.

In the beginning this show was awesome and hilarious when they had the original cast. After half of the originals left and they switched networks and brought in new people, the show went DOWNHILL. Its a shame.

My 8 out of 10 review is for the first few seasons with the originals. But for the last seasons after they made big changes, I rate it a 1 out of 10 seriously.

Do not waste your time with this show. The writing is so childish and it promotes the worst of the worst stereotypes among African Americans. The first three seasons of this show were decent when it was on the CW, but since moving to BET, the writing, directing, production value, and overall direction of the show has gone so down hill, it is at the bottom of the ocean's floor knocking on Hell's gate. I don't have one good word to say about this show. It is amateurish and anyone and everyone associated with this show should be embarrassed.

Now that Tia Mowry has left the show, there really is no point in continuing. She was the lead character. The show followed her relationship with a football player and her friendships. When she left, she took the last shred of class with her.

This was my show when it first came out, but then BET got hold of it and ruined the last seasons of it. It just became a ratchet show with no substance. Lauren London and Blue together is too much bad acting for one show to withstand. They were corny and childish. Everybody had to be made immoral. The show went from a 10 to a 3 with the changing of networks. I give it a 7 because the original on the CW outweighs the nonsense of BET. And lastly, how you gone have a show without the 2 main characters, Derwin and Melanie?

I started the fourth season and it's like I'm watching Zoey 101 all over again. Where's the audience laughter? At least there isn't any awkward silence in-between character's dialogue but if you're gonna have the characters crack jokes in almost every scene, then a laughing track is needed, in my opinion.